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“Sheesh—you almost ruin a mission one time and all of a sudden you have an alien-enforced bedtime.”

“Yeah! Think about it. Gravity is what determines how fast an animal can run. Higher gravity, more time spent in contact with the ground. Faster movement. I think animal intelligence, ultimately, has to be faster than gravity.”

“Thing is, when stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas.”

“Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.”

“Language is kind of an exponential system.”

“Wow. I’m sitting here in a spaceship in the Tau Ceti system waiting for the intelligent aliens I just met to continue our conversation…and I’m bored. Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”

“All right. I’m well fed. I’m feeling a little better about things. Food will do that.”